Section 15. Of employing our time profitably

when we are not travelling, &c....... Page 74

Section 16. Of the necessity of union among

ourselves....

Section 17. Of supernumerary and superan-

nuated or worn-out preachers..

Section 18. Of local preachers...

75

76

77

CHAPTER V.

OF THE MEANS OF GRACE.

Section 1. Of public worship....

80

Section 2. Of the spirit and truth of singing 81

Section 3. Of class-meetings and love-feasts 82

CHAPTER VI.

OF THE INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN.

Of Sunday schools and the religious instruc-

tion of children..

CHAPTER VII.

84

Of the rights and privileges of our coloured

members.

86

CHAPTER X.

OF BRINGING MINISTERS AND MEMBERS TO TRIAL,

AND OF THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.

Section 1. Of the trial of a Bishop......Page 89

Section 2. Of the method of proceeding

against accused travelling ministers or

preachers..

90

Section 3. Of the trial of local preachers... 95

Section 4. Of bringing to trial, finding

guilty, and reproving, suspending, or ex-

cluding, disorderly persons from society

and Church privileges..

97

Section 3. Of the ministration of baptism

to such as are of riper years..

107

CHAPTER III.

FORMS OF ORDINATION.

Section 1. Form of ordaining a Bishop. Page 122

Section 2. The form and manner of ordain-

ing Elders...

Section 3. The form and manner of making

of Deacons...

132

144

CHAPTER IV.

THE FORM OF SOLEMNIZATION OF MATRIMONY.

The form of solemnization of matrimony.. 149

CHAPTER V.

ORDER OF THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD.

The order of the burial of the dead...................

155

PART III.

TEMPORAL ECONOMY.

CHAPTER I.

OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCES.

Of the Boundaries of the Annual Confer-

ences...

158

CHAPTER II.

OF CHURCHES AND CHURCH PROPERTY.

Section 1. Of building churches, and the

order to be observed therein.

178

Section 2. Form of a deed of settlement .. 175

Section 3 Of trustees..

179

CHAPTER III.

OF SUPPORT AND SUPPLIES.

Section 1. Of the support of Bishops.. Page 181

Section 2. Of the allowance to ministers and

preachers, and to their wives, widows, and

children

Section 3. Local preachers to have an allow-

ance in certain cases..

Section 4. Of the qualifications, appoint-

ment, and duty, of the stewards of cir-

cuits and stations.

Section 5. Of raising annual supplies for the

propagation of the gospel, &c.

182

185

186

187

Section 6. Of building and renting houses

for the use of the travelling preachers... 192

CHAPTER IV.

THE SUPPORT OF MISSIONS.

The support of missions.

CHAPTER V.

OF THE CHARTERED Fund.

Of the Chartered Fund...

CHAPTER VI.

PRINTING AND CIRCULATING OF BOOKS.

Of printing and circulating of books.....

CHAPTER VII.

OF SLAVERY.

Of slavery.

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201

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THE LIBRARY
THE UNIVERSITY
OF TEXAS

THE

DOCTRINES AND DISCIPLINE

OF THE

METHODIST E. CHURCH.

PART I.

Origin, Doctrines, and Administratibe Rules.

CHAPTER I.

ORIGIN AND ARTICLES.

SECTION I.

Of the Origin of the Methodist E. Church. THE preachers and members of our society in general, being convinced that there was a great deficiency of vital religion in the Church of England in America, and being in many places destitute of the Christian sacraments, as several of the clergy had forsaken their churches, requested the late Rev. John Wesley to take such measures, in his wisdom and prudence, as would afford them suitable relief in their distress.

In consequence of this, our venerable friend, who, under God, had been the father of the great revival of religion now extending over the earth, by the means of the